The Jazz Thread

[el_shreddo]

Can you guys compile a list of what you consider to be essential jazz albums.

Thank you

 

[Opethian666]

all_sins_undone is very jazz influenced why don't you pm him?

 

[the_drip]

Miles Davis - Birth of The cool
miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Charles Mingus - The black saint and the sinner lady
Art Blakey - Free For All
don Cherry - Eternal Rhythm
Clifford Brown and Max Roach (1955)
Charles Mingus - Ah Um
Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Count Basie and His orchestra - April in Paris
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
Buddy Rich - Blues Caravan
Michael White - The Land of Spirit and Light
Stan Kenton - City of Glass


meh that should get you started.

 

[Braighs]

Martin, Medeski, & Wood.
They have one hip-hop fusion record "Bubblehouse" iirc and some improvised albums. If that's not your thing, avoid.
"Notes from the Underground" is brilliant. Gotta love the piano work on that.
not essential, but about the best jazz ensemble still going strong today afaik.

 

[illidurit]

lmao why no fusion

 

[Jon Snow]

John Coltrane - Blue Train

 

[el_shreddo]

lmao why no fusion

Nevermind, might as well kill two birds with one stone. Feel free to post fusion or anything jazz related

 

[illidurit]

fact is, some of the most essential jazz related albums are jazz fusion, such as:

miles davis - bitches brew
herbie hancock - head hunters

 

[el_shreddo]

fact is, some of the most essential jazz related albums are jazz fusion, such as:

miles davis - bitches brew
herbie hancock - head hunters

Shows my ignorance, will definately check out Bitches Brew.

 

[Liquid Tension]

Some great fusion stuff...

Ohm
Karcius
Cosmosquad
Hellborg/Lane/Sipe
Tony Williams (lifetime stuff)
Billy Cobham
Les McCann
Coronarias Dans

 

[SPLASTiK]

Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame (Jazz/Rock fusion)

 

[Prognostic]

kenny g

 

[daz436]

This list covers a wave of different types of jazz;

Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
Ella Fitzgerald
Dizzy Gillespie
Louis Armstrong - Any of his work through the War
Stanley Clarke - If This Bass Could Only Talk
Stanley Clarke - School Days
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Colosseum II - War Dance
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
Mr Scruff - Trouser Jazz
George Duke - After Hours
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo

yeh there's shitloads more and ive probably missed out some obvious ones but these are the important ones across multiple subgenres that first spring to my mind.

 

[illidurit]

lol I met Kenny G at Jane Seymour's halloween party in 1997

 

[arzachel]

what where you doing there in the first place?

 

[illidurit]

I went to school with her son

 

[arzachel]

 

[gatedropper]

Title Year
1 1 Miles Davis Kind of Blue 1959
2 2 John Coltrane A Love Supreme 1964
4 3 John Coltrane Giant Steps 1959
3 4 Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um 1959
5 5 Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus 1956
6 6 The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out 1959
8 7 Cannonball Adderley Somethin' Else 1958
7 8 John Coltrane Blue Train 1957
9 9 Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage 1965
12 10 John Coltrane My Favorite Things 1960
13 11 Miles Davis Bitches Brew 1969
10 12 Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch! 1964
15 13 Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Moanin' 1958
11 14 Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come 1959
14 15 Louis Armstrong 25 Greatest Hot Fives & Sevens 1929
16 16 Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil 1964
18 17 Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners 1956
22 18 Bill Evans Trio Waltz for Debby 1961
19 19 Miles Davis Birth of the Cool 1950
17 20 Charlie Parker The Savoy & Dial Studio Sessions 1948
21 21 Lee Morgan The Sidewinder 1963
20 22 Oliver Nelson The Blues & the Abstract Truth 1961
23 23 Miles Davis In a Silent Way 1969
24 24 Miles Davis Sketches Of Spain 1960
27 25 Stan Getz & João Gilberto Getz/Gilberto 1963
34 26 Bill Evans Trio Sunday at the Village Vanguard 1961
26 27 The Horace Silver Quintet Song for My Father 1964
25 28 Herbie Hancock Head Hunters 1973
28 29 Duke Ellington & His Orchestra Ellington At Newport [2CD] 1956
30 30 Keith Jarrett The Köln Concert 1975
29 31 Charles Mingus Black Saint & the Sinner Lady 1963
31 32 Billie Holiday Lady Day 1944
37 33 Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane 1957
32 34 The Quintet (w/ Charlie Parker) Jazz At Massey Hall 1952
38 35 Miles Davis Round About Midnight 1956
41 36 Wes Montgomery Incredible Jazz Guitar 1960
42 37 Weather Report Heavy Weather 1977
35 38 Thelonious Monk The Best of the Blue Note Years 1952
33 39 Duke Ellington & His Orchestra Blanton-Webster Recordings 1942
40 40 Miles Davis Quintet Miles Smiles 1966
48 41 Miles Davis Milestones 1958
44 42 Dexter Gordon Go! 1962
39 43 Ornette Coleman Free Jazz 1960
45 44 Clifford Brown & Max Roach Study in Brown 1955
36 45 Bud Powell The Definitive Bud Powell 1953
43 46 Duke Ellington The Far East Suite 1966
50 47 Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Ella & Louis 1956
47 48 Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section 1957
52 49 Hank Mobley Soul Station 1960
51 50 Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert [2CD] 1938
53 51 The Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame 1971
46 52 Ella Fitzgerald The Best of the Song Books 1964
54 53 Count Basie Orchestra The Complete Atomic Basie 1957
56 54 McCoy Tyner The Real McCoy 1967
59 55 Coleman Hawkins Body & Soul [RCA] 1956
57 56 Andrew Hill Point of Departure 1964
49 57 Count Basie Orchestra The Best of Early Basie [Decca] 1939
55 58 Count Basie Orchestra April in Paris 1956
60 59 Art Blakey Quintet A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 1954
64 60 John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman 1963
58 61 Erroll Garner Concert by the Sea 1955
61 62 Duke Ellington (w/ Mingus & Roach) Money Jungle 1962
62 63 Charles Mingus Pithecanthropus Erectus 1956
68 64 Grant Green Idle Moments 1963
77 65 Chet Baker My Funny Valentine [Blue Note] 1956
70 66 Thelonious Monk Monk's Music 1957
65 67 Larry Young Unity 1965
67 68 Clifford Brown & Max Roach Clifford Brown & Max Roach 1954
90 69 Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie Bird and Diz 1950
78 70 Miles Davis A Tribute to Jack Johnson 1970
66 71 Sarah Vaughan w/ Clifford Brown Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown 1954
73 72 Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue 1963
74 73 Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd Jazz Samba 1962
71 74 John Coltrane Ascension 1965
72 75 The Oscar Peterson Trio Night Train 1962
69 76 The Gil Evans Orchestra Out of the Cool 1960
75 77 Jimmy Smith The Sermon 1958
63 78 Fats Waller The Very Best Of Fats Waller 1940
76 79 Louis Armstrong Plays W C Handy 1954
81 80 Albert Ayler Trio Spiritual Unity 1964
80 81 Cecil Taylor Unit Structures 1966
83 82 Miles Davis Quintet Relaxin' 1956
91 83 Modern Jazz Quartet Django 1955
89 84 Dexter Gordon Our Man in Paris 1963
97 85 Charles Mingus Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus 1963
79 86 Sonny Rollins The Bridge 1962
94 87 Miles Davis Nefertiti 1967
88 88 Chick Corea Return to Forever 1972
101 89 Jimmy Smith Back at the Chicken Shack 1960
110 90 Sonny Rollins Tenor Madness 1956
98 91 Sonny Clark Cool Struttin' 1958
82 92 Dave Holland Quartet Conference Of the Birds 1972
115 93 Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius 1976
92 94 Chick Corea Now He Sings, Now He Sobs 1968
108 95 Pat Metheny Bright Size Life 1975
85 96 Ornette Coleman Change of the Century 1959
95 97 Rahsaan Roland Kirk Rip, Rig & Panic/Beautiful Edith 1967
86 98 Jelly Roll Morton Birth Of the Hot 1927
96 99 Bill Evans & Jim Hall Undercurrent 1962
105 100 Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grappelli Nuages [ASV] 1940










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Thelonius Monk Featuring John Coltrane Live at the 5 Spot 1957.

 

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